Who is Tak Loufer from Dhalgren and what is their importance?

Tak Loufer is a young black man who meets Kidd on a street in Bellona. He gives him the name of Kidd when he discovers the young man has been in a mental hospital and doesn't know his name. Tak takes Kidd to his group in the park and introduces him to the other people. Tak who is an industrial engineer lives in a former maintenance shack on the roof of the building where they first met.

Tak is known as the Iron Wolf. He came from Helmsford which is about twelve miles from Bellona and came to Bellona after the riots. Loufer likes it there because there are no laws to follow or break. Because of this, it represents freedom to him. He considers the danger of the city to be a form of protection. He had served time in prison for public indecency and left the project he had been working on in Helmsford to come to Bellona. Take explains the scorpions protection racket to Kidd and a little about life in the city. Tak, Denny and Lanya are separated from Kidd at the end of the book.