Dark Sparkler The lives of than twenty five actresses lost before their time from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy explored in haunting provocative new work by an acclaimed poet and actress Amber Tamblyn is both
The lives of than twenty five actresses lost before their time from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy explored in 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 whoseThe lives of than twenty five actresses lost before their time from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy explored in 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 Tome, 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 Actresses featured in Dark Sparkler include Marilyn MonroeBrittany MurphyDana PlatoJayne MansfieldJean HarlowDominique DunneSharon TateHeather O RourkeBridgette AndersenShannon Michelle WilseyJudith BarsiPeg EntwistleCarole LandisAnissa JonesSusan PetersBarbara La MarrLucy GordonSirkka SariLi ToblerThelma ToddSamantha SmithLupe ValezTaruni SachdevRebecca Shaeffer
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Amber Rose Tamblyn is an American actor, film director, and author Tamblyn was born and raised in Venice, California and is a 3rd generation Californian She has been a writer and actress since the age of 9 Tamblyn has been nominated for an Emmy, Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award for her work in television and film In 2007, she won the Locarno Film Festival award for Best Actress for her work in the film Stephanie Daley, in which she starred opposite Tilda Swinton In television, she later appeared in FOX s House in film, she worked with Danny Boyle in 127 Hours opposite James Franco , as well as working on screenwriter Horton Foote s Main Street opposite Colin Firth Most recently, as of 2017, she starred in Growing Up and Other Lies written and directed by Darren Grodsky and Danny Jacobs, 2015 , and starred opposite Bob Odenkirk in Girlfriend s Day released on Netflix, 2017 As an actor, she is perhaps most recognized in television for her work as Joan on the CBS program Joan of Arcadia, and in film as Tibby in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2005.In 2016, Tamblyn made her debut as a film director, with Paint It Black which she also co wrote, with Ed Dougherty.Amber s first published poem Kill Me So Much appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle when she was 12, having been submitted by her writing mentor Jack Hirschman Poet Laureate of San Francisco 2009 In the years that followed, Amber self published two collections of poetry, art and photography entitled Plenty of Ships and Of the Dawn She collaborated with Semina Culture artist George Herms to create a limited edition book of collage and haiku dedicated to Thelonious Monk, entitled, The Loneliest In 2005, Simon Schuster published her debut collection of poetry, Free Stallion, which was written over a period of than a decade Lawrence Ferlinghetti called the book, A fine, fruitful gestation of throbbingly nascent sexuality, awakened in young new language The book won the Borders Book Choice Award for Breakout Writing in 2006 Her work has since been published in New York Quarterly, San Francisco Chronicle, Poets Writers, Pank Magazine, Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Interview, and others She is the Executive Producer of The Drums Inside Your Chest, an annual poetry concert that showcases outstanding contemporary poets She is the co founder of the nonprofit Write Now Poetry Society which works to build an audience for unique poetry events Her second book of poetry and prose, Bang Ditto Manic D Press , was published in the Fall of 2009, and was an Independent Best Seller She currently writes for The Poetry Foundation and is a poetry reviewer for Bust Magazine In 2015, HarperCollins published her collection of poems, Dark Sparkler, a meditation on and tribute to the tragic lives and premature deaths of sundry women actors and child star actresses The book s forward was contributed by Diane di Prima Dark Sparkler also features original artwork by David Lynch, Marcel Dzama, Sage Vaughn, Kid Koala, Marilyn Manson, and others.In 2012, she married comedian and actor David Cross, with whom she had a daughter in February 2017.