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diaCRITICS reviewer Melina Kritikopoulos chats with poet Sydney Do about her first collection of poems, Here Lies My Heart<\/a><\/em>. They discuss the difficulties of writing personal poetry, self-publishing, and the role poetry plays as therapy in Do\u2019s life as a Southeast Asian poet writing in the diaspora.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Melina Kritikopoulos: <\/strong>You mention in your author bio that you said you\u2019ve been writing since you were 13. Is there some kind of catalyzing moment that happened when you were 13?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Sydney Do: <\/strong>I think one of my first poems was for my English class in middle school. We had to write poetry which inspired me to write about the experiences in my life. I had my first little crush and it didn\u2019t go well so I wrote about that. And then my grandma had passed away shortly after so I just continued on with writing as a form of therapy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

MK: <\/strong>You mention \u201cwriting as therapy.\u201d Could you talk a bit more about your relationship to poetry?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

SD: <\/strong>Honestly poetry is just my outlet. It\u2019s something I’ve always kind of resorted to when I\u2019m stressed, when I\u2019m sad, when I\u2019m feeling things that I can\u2019t really say but it’s easier for me to put it onto paper. I write when I reach milestones in my life or I go through periods of being really happy and blessed. I know a lot of this first book highlights trauma, pain,and heartbreak but I promise I write about happy things too.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

MK:<\/strong> Can you talk a bit about your Southeast Asian identity and if that factors into your poetry?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

SD: <\/strong>It’s funny. I actually took an Asian American Studies class my senior year, this past year at UC Irvine. It was a social activism and politics class. My teacher had asked me the same thing: \u201chow does poetry relate to you or relate to your identity in the Southeast Asian community?\u201d And honestly, when I write, I feel like I\u2019m speaking for people that have endured similar traumas to me; for people who might\u2019ve endured the same things I did as a young girl with immigrant parents who didn\u2019t heal so much from the traumatic events they faced during the Vietnam War. A lot of my writing reflects off of my parents. Honor is a huge thing in the Asian community and when I write, a big sense of my writing, my success, everything I do, ties into representing my parents. They\u2019re a huge part of my identity because without them, I wouldn\u2019t be me.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

MK:<\/strong> I notice there are drawings scattered throughout the book. For some poets, illustrations and imagery is not just an addition to their poetry, but part of the poetry itself. Can you talk more about these illustrations\u2013who did them? Why did you choose to include them? What are their relationships to the poems?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

SD:<\/strong> The drawings themselves kind of complete the poetry. My goal for people reading my poetry is to have them envision their own images and to resonate and relate with me in whatever way they can. But for some specific poems\u2013I think I have about 27 or 28 drawings in there\u2013it was specifically tied to that poem for people to envision what I wanted them to see. The person that illustrated my poetry is my older sister Tiffany. She has been an artist her whole life. She\u2019s so talented, she\u2019s so creative and very artistically inclined. I\u2019m good with words but I cannot draw for my life so I was sending her designs and doodling on my phone with my finger and writing out descriptions. She literally created everything I wanted. Especially my front cover. That\u2019s one of my favorite pieces that she\u2019s drawn. She\u2019s made magic with everything that I\u2019ve given her.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

MK: <\/strong>Seeing poetry in rhyme in a contemporary poetry scene that\u2019s so saturated with free verse was interesting. Was there anything in particular that went into the choice to strictly follow a rhyme scheme in a lot of your poems?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

SD:<\/strong> Honestly when I write, when I\u2019m really inspired, I just start writing it out on paper. I think I unintentionally rhyme. There\u2019s some poems where I feel like this has to go with this. Or if I\u2019m gonna say \u201csing\u201d I have to keep everything rhyming with \u201csing.\u201d Half of the time I don\u2019t intentionally try to rhyme. I just kind of write. Whatever comes to my mind, if it makes sense, if that\u2019s how I\u2019m feeling, if that\u2019s what happens, I\u2019ll put it on paper and then it just flows.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

MK:<\/strong> So would you say you do much editing with your poems or does it kind of just come out as a finished piece?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

SD: <\/strong>Honestly, it comes out as a finished piece. I did have an editor go through my book. I had about 155 poems and I only published I think 120 or so. So I didn\u2019t include everything in my first book. But even on the shared document, there were just a few punctual errors or just adding notes like \u201cmaybe you can put this word instead of this word\u201d or \u201cmaybe you can add another sentence here.\u201d She didn\u2019t have to do much editing for my poetry. So I would say it just comes out as a finished piece. I personally like to leave my work untouched. I know I need to have someone peer review but what I write\u2013the theme and the message and what I\u2019m trying to convey to my readers\u2013I like to keep that in this frame.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

MK:<\/strong> So this is your first book. Can you talk about the process of publication and how you went about doing that as a self-published author? Why did you go through self-publishing as opposed to a traditional company?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

SD: <\/strong>If I\u2019m being honest, if I had more money than what I started out with to save up for my book\u2013because I also had a book signing party\u2013I would have gone through a publisher. But I made a goal for myself last year, 2022. I said before the year ends I want to self publish my book before my birthday as a gift to myself.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Rupi Kaur is one of my favorite poets, one of my favorite authors. She\u2019s someone my work kind of mirrors, but with obviously our own unique experiences. I was just so inspired by her. She had published her first book, Milk and Honey<\/em> when she was 21, self-published. She did all her artwork by herself, bestseller; and now she\u2019s onto her fourth book. She\u2019s 28 or 29 and I just want to be like her one day, but like Sydney Do. So I think that was my huge motivation. If she can do it, I can do it. That\u2019s why I continued on my journey of writing and sharing my poetry with the world.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Self-publishing is not easy. I cannot say how many times I\u2019ve had breakdowns. I was so stressed, feeling like I don\u2019t want to do this. But my parents didn\u2019t raise me to quit. Sometimes it was just really rough. Because being a new author, I didn\u2019t really know the process, and my editor could only give me so much guidance.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

It was not an easy process, I think the outcome is much more rewarding. But if you have the money and the funds and the resources I would recommend going through a publisher.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

MK: <\/strong>A lot of young poets feel that publication can act as a goal of poetry. So as a poet who has very recently been published and has been writing for over a decade, what did publication do for you as a poet, and as for feeling like a poet?\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

SD:<\/strong> It was a really liberating feeling and it just acknowledged all the hard work that I\u2019ve done; because this book was 5 years in the making. I\u2019m still learning the process of promoting and marketing my book and everything and I\u2019m not a marketing major or anything so I don\u2019t know anything about it. But I think, again, the finished product was so rewarding because instead of writing in my little brown leather book and then inputting it on the laptop and being hesitant and reluctant to share my poetry to the public\u2013with the world that doesn\u2019t know all these intimate details about me and my life\u2013to actually have a hard copy and hold it in my hands and be like, this is my heart and soul on paper and this is what I created. Something that I did for myself and creating a name for myself. Nothing is more rewarding than that.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

MK: <\/strong>You mention in that answer how intimate this collection is. If you\u2019re willing to talk about it, what inspired the events and stories retold in this book?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

SD: <\/strong>All my poetry is nonfiction. Everything in here is real. It\u2019s all my experiences. All my writing is based on not just my feelings, but people that have inspired me or impacted me. Not every single poem is about me; I\u2019ve written about other people, and my relationship to them or what they mean to me. Again, when I am feeling really emotionally charged I turn to writing as therapy. If I don\u2019t have my physical book on me I\u2019ll go to my phone and write it in my notes or I\u2019ll do a voice recording so I can jot it down later.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

When I was going through some pretty traumatic events and painful things that I didn\u2019t, at the time, have the strength to get myself out of, I would write. The painful poems and traumatic things you\u2019re reading about are inspired by me being so overwhelmed and engulfed with my emotions I just have to get it out on paper.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

MK:<\/strong> Did the extreme intimacy of the collection make it difficult for you to publish it?\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

SD:<\/strong> That\u2019s why I said I was having so many breakdowns. I was really reluctant to share what was so intimate to me and my life with the world. People that I had past relations with and people that I used to be friends with and people that no longer serve a purpose in my life\u2026 it would be accessible to anybody. I wasn\u2019t really comfortable with the idea at first, with people getting to know me on such a deep level without really knowing me. Why am I giving you so much access to me if you just don\u2019t know me like that? A big part of me was like, another girl or another person that\u2019s going through these things would need this book, or they\u2019d need a place to feel they are heard and seen, where they feel safe and they can relate to somebody else. So that was really what was pushing me to just be like, bite the bullet and publish the thing. If you get criticism you get criticism, if you get good reviews you get good reviews. It\u2019s your work and it\u2019s not always for everyone. But just do it and hopefully you can just help someone else out along the way.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Here Lies My Heart<\/em><\/a>
by Sydney Do
Independently published, $19.99<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Sydney Do<\/strong> is a first time self-published author. With a passion for writing poetry at the early age of 13, creating art with her words, and pouring her heart out onto paper, has always been a therapeutic remedy to her pain. Sydney longs for making a difference in the world. She hopes her debut poetry book finds you well and helps get you through the darkest of days. Instagram: @ms.sydneydo<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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