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.
Foreword / by Diane di Prima -- Li Tobler -- Untitled Actress -- Thelma Todd -- Miriam Lebelle -- Judith Barsi -- Peg Entwistle -- Jean Harlow -- Martha Anne Dae -- Jayne Mansfield -- Carole Landis -- Anissa Jones -- Susan Peters -- Dominique Dunne -- Sirkka Sari -- Cindy Jenkins -- Brittany Murphy -- Bridgette Andersen -- Shannon Michelle Wilsey -- Jane Doe -- Heather O'Rourke -- Abigail Nell -- Lupe Velez -- Taruni Sachdev -- Julia Thorp -- Sharon Tate -- Marilyn Monroe -- Lindsay Lohan -- Jennifer Davis -- Alison Andres -- Rebecca Shaeffer -- Elizabeth Pine -- Dana Plato -- Samantha Smith -- Lucy Gordon -- Barbara La Marr -- Laurel Gene -- Frances Farmer -- Quentin Dean -- Epilogue.
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