In 1998, California in recognition of the state's size, diversity and complexity asked LSC to allow it to first develop regional plans for the creation of regional justice communities.
Due to California's unique characteristics, it requested it be allowed to develop its own regional plans.
But Walcott also wants an outsider's view on this exalted material, and he finds it in the 19 th -century English peasant-poet John Clare, whom he makes into a stand-in for himself.