poetry he wrote were very abstract, complex in the modernistic trend , very difficult to understand, o. paikand he didn't capture the language of the people. but he knew that language. he just felt he needed to elevate it to bring more honor and dignity to the people. as neighborhoods go it's a big neighborhood especially the original because it included all that lower stuff that is now gone, from urban renewal. it was very large neighborhood. it was the city's oldest neighborhood and you can see it's right next to downtown so is it's the first neighborhood that was developed. it was old and it was large but he always lived there and that makes a difference in terms of race relations. he never had this oh somebody's coming in to our city. blacks were there from the very beginning so what you had was a thickening of people. blacks were ours here in immigrants for hours here and it just sort of thickened but you never had a real push and as you can see in this area -- the jewish live south of center avenue. that was the heavily jewish part there was a lot of overlap and blacks lived there and