Actress Amber Tamblyn's odes to dead Hollywood actresses

Actress Amber Tamblyn writes about dead Hollywood actresses in her new book of poems. But Dark Sparkler is more than that. "The book is about the lives and deaths of celebrity women in a certain way, but it's also about voyeurism, it's also about projection, it's also [about] ... what it's like to be an object for a living," says Tamblyn, 31, in a recent interview. Each poem is about a female celebrity who died before the age of 40, including Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and Rebecca Shaeffer. It took Tamblyn six years to write, with a year off when it became too much for her. She said it began with a poem she wrote for actress Brittany Murphy, who died in 2009 from a combination of pneumonia, anaemia and multiple drug intoxication. She focused on women because "that's what I know. ... I understood the lives of these women more personally and in a deeper way," she says. Dark Sparkler is the third book of poetry by Tamblyn, who starred in The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants films with Blake Lively, Alexis Bledel and America Ferrera, and on TV in House and Joan of Arcadia . She talked about the book, actress Lindsay Lohan and her Sisterhood friends with .

Studying your dead peers will get to you. Plain and simple. Reading autopsy report after autopsy report and listening to interviews ... It's hard not to get obsessed and absorbed to the point where you start to lose your mind a little bit.

I wanted other young women to see how much [of] our interior pains are the same and at the end of the day what you feel is what I feel and it's very similar, but often times actors don't really get to express that in a true manner because of the way in which we are promoted or the way we promote ourselves.