Wise... Beyond Her Years: Collected Poems 1972 - 1980 - Paperback

by Sybil Ingram (Author)

In a poetry collection that spans the experience of more than a decade, Dr. Sybil Ingram shows experiences, knowledge, and wisdom that emerges through the narrator's voice. Insights expressed in the poems are far beyond the age of the narrator and author.

Written in her youth, 'Wise... Beyond Her Years' is the written account of a young black woman writing about, and reacting to, the events and experiences of an era.

As a young woman growing up on the south side of Chicago, Sybil had been aptly rewarded and terribly chastised at times for sharing her knowledge about a subject. But the need to share was so strong that it drove her to put pencil to paper, sometimes as therapy, as a form or release from being stifled to express her true feelings and observations at other times.

Even as Dr. Ingram evolved over the years with countless accolades and accomplishments to her name, the chastisement arrow still finds her from time to time. Armed with wit, competence, and confidence, Dr. Ingram is now free to professionally respond with sugar-tipped or poison-tipped arrows electronically.

Or still the old school way... putting pencil to paper.