Dinner with Catherine the Great

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Providing a rare and creative sense of authority's various faces, this collection of poems travels from intellectual and artistic power to philosophical, military, and imperial power, and above all, personal influence. The verse introduces the persuasiveness, complexities, and intrigues of 'table talk' - a European tradition of informed and enlightened conversation that has virtually disappeared from the experience of North American culture.