![]() ![]() 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. 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. ![]() As such she is deeply fascinated and intimately familiar with the toll exacted from young women whose lives are offered in sacrifice as starlets. Although her story is an extreme one, what we realise over the course of her journey is just how many people experience aspects of this addiction and the self-destruction that comes with it - all fed by a culture where romantic obsession is stoked by the stories we read, the movies we see, and the dreams were fed. 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.Īmber Tamblyn is both an award-winning film and television actress and an acclaimed poet. ![]()
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