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Hagen, p. 118: "Unlike the four previous volumes of poetry, this fifth work titled Now Sheba Sings the Song (1987), adds a new dimension. Here fifteen or so short poems are responses to sketches of African-American women done by artist Tom Feelings, whom Angelou has known for many years. The combined talents of these two are highly complementary and the results are particularly appealing."
Neubauer, p. 12: "At the end of All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes, Angelou hints at her association with Tom Feelings, a young black American artist who lived in Ghana during the early 1960s. Angelou cites MalcolmX 's introduction of this newcomer to the black American expatriate community: "`A young painter named Tom Feelings is coming to Ghana. Do everything you can for him. I amcounting on you.'" By introducing Feelings at the conclusion of her latest autobiography, she subtly sets the scene for her most recent publication, Now Sheba Sings the Song (1987), a single poem, illustrated by eighty-two of Feelings's drawings of black women, sketched throughout the world over a period of twentyfive years. Together the poemand the sepia-toned drawings royally celebrate the universal majesty of the black woman. In his introduction to the book, Feelings credits Angelou as the "someone who shared a similar experience [with the women he drew], someone who traveled, opened up, took in, and mentally recorded everything observed. And most important of all, it [his collaborator] had to be someone whose center is woman." Angelou's poem, in turn, glorifies the spiritual, physical, emotional, and intellectual powers of black women or what Feelings calls "Africa's beauty, strength, and dignity [which are] wherever the Black woman is." Angelou affirms the black woman's "love of good and God and Life" and beckons "he who is daring and brave" to meet the open challenge of the radiant Queen of Sheba. Maya Angelou's songs, like Sheba's, testify to the creative powers inherent in the works of today's Southern women writers. (pp. 114-41)"
Gillespie, p. 130: "A year later [after the publication of Traveling Shoes] there was another book of poetry in print, Now Sheba Sings the Song, which she described as 'a play on the Song of Solomon. We never heard Sheba's song.' And she asked a friend whom she'd met when the two were expatriates in Ghana, the artist Tom Feelings, to provide the art".