The first day of spring in northern Minnesota

"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, bird song, to a younger man"--Cover.