Mr Sullivan, a journalist and the southern editor for the Paris Review, is known for his piercingly poetic style of writing.

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It signals a move away from poetic symbolism and metaphors and towards a more direct style of story-telling, and won the Golden Lion award in Venice in 2000.

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The epic is told in a lyrical voice with rhythmic enunciation, while separate cantos are sung in a rhyming poetic style.

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