{"product_id":"waiting-for-spring-erik-m-stumpfel-9798993481869","title":"Waiting for Spring","description":"\u003cp\u003eWaiting for Spring is a celebration of life in one of America's most unforgiving and beautiful corners - southern Piscataquis County, Maine. Written by a self-described man \"from away,\" these poems chronicle the experience of making a home in a place where winter arrives uninvited and stays far too long, where neighbors measure trust in decades, and where spring, when it finally comes, feels like a gift earned rather than given.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the quiet comedy of a weather lecture cancelled by snow, to the philosophical depths of splitting wood no one will ever burn, to an unforgettable encounter with the aromatic evidence of a sleeping moose, Erik Stumpfel captures the rhythms, characters, and landscapes of rural Maine with wit, warmth, and a poet's eye for the telling detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrated throughout with the author's own photographs of the ponds, streams, forests, and back roads of Piscataquis country, Waiting for Spring is at once a love letter to a place, a meditation on belonging, and an honest reckoning with what it means to arrive somewhere as a stranger - and slowly, quietly, become part of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor those who know Maine, these poems will ring true. For those who don't, they may just make you want to go.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erik M. Stumpfel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798993481869\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Genthner House Publishing Co.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d","brand":"Erik M. Stumpfel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49174480388351,"sku":"9798993481869","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/waiting-for-spring-erik-m-stumpfel-9798993481869","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}