The First Day of Spring in Northern Minnesota

Poetry. THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING IN NORTHERN MINNESOTA is a collection of poems honoring what poets, mystics, old country people, as well as the plants and animals, have always known--all living things are connected. In the second section, A Good Sauna Always Burns Down, an old man passes this knowledge, as well as the intricacies of marriage, sauna construction, and bird song, to a younger man.