Summary
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.
