Dark Sparkler

The lives of more than twenty-five actresses lost before their time--from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy--explored in a haunting, provocative new work by an acclaimed poet and actress. Amber Tamblyn is both an award-winning film and television actress and an acclaimed poet. As such she is deeply fascinated--and intimately familiar--with the toll exacted from young women whose lives are offered in sacrifice as starlets. The stories of these actresses, both famous and obscure-tragic stories of suicide, murder, obscurity, and other forms of death--inspired this empathic and emotionally charged collection of new poetic work. Featuring subjects from Marilyn Monroe and Frances Farmer to Dana Plato and Brittany Murphy--and paired with original artwork commissioned for the book by luminaries including David Lynch, Adrian Tomine, Marilyn Manson, and Marcel Dzama-- Dark Sparkler is a surprising and provocative collection from a young artist of wide-ranging talent, culminating in an extended, confessional epilogue of astonishing candor and poetic command.

Product details

• Authors: Amber Tamblyn
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.04.2015
• EAN: 9780062348166
• ISBN: 978-0-06-234816-6
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 200 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Poetry, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Aspects of religion, Personal religious testimony and popular inspirational works, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Religion and beliefs, FICTION: Literary, RELIGION: Inspirational, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Inspirational & Religious, POETRY: Women Authors, POETRY: POETS: H TO Z, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, POETRY: General, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Places, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Family, Poetry by form: Haiku, Poetry / Poets: H to Z