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Advance Praise
“Larry Brown once said, ‘The best literature is always about matters of the human heart,’ and that’s precisely where Ellen Prentiss Campbell dares go in her new collection Known by Heart. These are mature tales that have earned their knowledge and resonance. Precise as open-heart surgery, laying bare the more rarely seen inner chambers of love’s entropy and endurance, its old flames and addictions, even the ridiculous vanity of self-love. Ms. Prentiss Campbell’s work pulses with pain and pleasure. Intricate, vulnerable, and above all, compassionate.”
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They parked in the deserted lot. Daniel retrieved his metal detector from the trunk; she slung her binoculars around her neck.
During warm weather they drove through the countryside, pursuing their respective hobbies. Daniel knocked on farmhouse doors, seeking out the owner in the barn if no one answered. Most granted permission for Daniel to wave his wand over their fields and the weedy margins beside the roads. He promised to show them what he found, to give right of first refusal. Daniel dug gently and meticulously refilled the small excavations. Once he found a button from the uniform of a Hessian soldier; the family didn’t want it. He turned it over to the historical society.
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