Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth work of fiction by this poet and award winning writer - the story of four lonely people, joined together by the simple circumstance of sharing the same apartment building, who begin to form surprising, life-changing bonds with one another. Irena Bozinska is a mathematician who has recently emigrated from Poland to America, who works as an attendant for an aging jazz musician and Jack Kaufman, cared for by a mysteriously sad young woman, is a Chicago gangster nearing the end of his colorful, violent life. 218 pp. ISBN: 1-566890411.