"With frank observations and blunt commentary, Tamblyn has created a smartly crafted collection, proving that she is a savvy and fierce woman and poet who knows that behind every spotlight is shadow." -- Booklist"Dark Sparkler is an elegy, a eulogy, a rhapsody, a rage. In these astonishing poems inspired by dead actresses, Tamblyn fiercely examines the spectacle of the actress as she lives and dies and how our hands and hearts linger on their lives."-- Roxane Gay, author of New York Times bestseller Bad FeministThe 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 award-winning actress, and paired with 12 original, four-color pieces of artwork commissioned for the book by luminaries including David Lynch, Adrian Tomine, and Marcel Dzama.As a woman who has grown up in the spotlight, Amber Tamblyn is deeply fascinated by--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--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.
Sobre o autor(a)
Tamblyn, Amber
AMBER TAMBLYN, autora da coletânea de poemas Dark Sparkler, já foi indicada ao Emmy, ao Globo de Ouro e ao Independent Spirit. Já publicou dois outros livros de poesia, Free Stallion (2005), ganhador do Borders Book Choice Award na categoria de Escrita Revelação, e Bang Ditto (2009), um best-seller da Indie-Next. Colaboradora da Poetry Foundation, TAMBLYN também já escreveu para Interview, Cosmopolitan, San Francisco Chronicle, Poets & Writers, PANK, entre outros. Ela mora no Brooklyn com o marido, o comediante David Cross, e a filha de um ano. |
| ISBN | 9780062348166 |
| Autor(a) | Tamblyn, Amber |
| Editora | Harper Perennial |
| Ano de edição | 2015 |
| Páginas | 128 |
| Acabamento | Brochura |
| Dimensões | 20,10 X 15,00 |