Fireflies: With 258 Full Color Illustrations - Softcover

Tagore, Rabindranath

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1482077531 ISBN 13: 9781482077537

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

Fireflies is a collection of 253 brief poems by the famed Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, recipient of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature. Originating in China and Japan, and often written on fans and bits of silk, they are here wonderfully illustrated in full color by Alberta Hutchinson. A prolific artist, poet and author, Hutchinson has created thousands of works including coloring books, illustrated books, a mandala series, design books, ornaments, portraits, quilts and fabrics, and has designed and built a meditation pagoda, “Lotus House.” Her other recent books include a novel, Step by Step (2011), an illustrated children’s book, The Orphan and the Christmas Tree (2011), and an illustrated book of her own poems, Songs of Symmetry (2012).thousands of works including coloring books, illustrated books, a mandala series, design books, ornaments, portraits, quilts and fabrics, and has designed and built a meditation pagoda, “Lotus House.” Her other recent books include a novel, Step by Step (2011), an illustrated children’s book, The Orphan and the Christmas Tree (2011), and an illustrated book of her own poems, Songs of Symmetry (2012).

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Review:

"From the 1913 winner of the Nobel Prize in literature comes Fireflies, a collection of 200 proverbs, aphorisms, and maxims from India, China, and Japan. Collected by Rabindranath Tagore over many years, each epigrammatic 'firefly' represents a brief yet luminous thought on life, beauty, or God. "Tagore knew that the most profound subjects -- love, truth, compassion, birth, and death -- were his." -- Deepak Chopra.

About the Author:

Alberta Hutchinson is a prolific artist, poet and author. Among her thousands of creations include portraits, illustrated books, design books, Christmas and Easter ornaments, quilts, and fabrics. She published a novel, "Step by Step," in 2011, illustrated a children's book, "The Orphan and the Christmas Tree," also published in 2011, and her illustrated poetry book, "Songs of Symmetry," is being published in 2012. Several of her mandala design books have been published by Dover Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1482077531
• ISBN 13: 9781482077537
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• Illustrator: Hutchinson Alberta L.