The lives of more than twenty-five actresses lost before their timefrom Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphyexplored 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 fascinatedand intimately familiarwith 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 deathinspired this empathic and emotionally charged collection of new poetic work.Featuring subjects from Marilyn Monroe and Frances Farmer to Dana Plato and Brittany Murphyand paired with original artwork commissioned for the book by luminaries including David Lynch, Adrian Tomine, Marilyn Manson, and Marcel DzamaDark 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 lives of more than twenty-five actresses lost before their timefrom Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphyexplored 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 fascinatedand intimately familiarwith 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 deathinspired this empathic and emotionally charged collection of new poetic work.Featuring subjects from Marilyn Monroe and Frances Farmer to Dana Plato and Brittany Murphyand paired with original artwork commissioned for the book by luminaries including David Lynch, Adrian Tomine, Marilyn Manson, and Marcel DzamaDark 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.