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News wires white papers and books Cuney, William Waring 19061976

Cuney, William Waring 19061976

Contemporary Black Biography
COPYRIGHT 2005 Thomson Gale

William Waring Cuney 19061976

Poet

Met Langston Hughes

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Wrote No Images

Poetry Reflected Black Issues

Collaborated With Josh White

Served in the Pacific

Disappeared from View

Selected writings

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William Waring Cuney, or Waring Cuneyas he was commonly knownwas a prominent poet
of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance. Cuneys concise, rhythmic verse influenced black poetry and
music, and he pioneered the blues-based poetry of the 1920s and 1930s. He wrote the protest
lyrics for one of musician Josh Whites most popular albums. Poets and musicians today still
recite and record his most famous poemNo Images.

Though it is known that he was born on May 6, 1906, in Washington, D.C., other information
about his early life is scarce. He and his twin, Norris Wright Cuney, were raised by racially-
mixed parents, Madge Louise Baker and Norris Cuney II, both from prominent Washington,
D.C., families. Waring Cuney prepared for a singing career while his brother studied piano.
Norris Cuney became a printer and sometimes printed his brothers poems.

Met Langston Hughes

Cuney attended public schools and Howard University in Washington, D.C. He graduated from
Lincoln University near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a school of some 400 black students and an
all-white faculty. Cuney studied voice and sang with a quartet and the school glee club.

While on the street car one day, Cuney noticed a picture of Langston Hughes in the newspaper,
publicizing his first book of poetry. Cuney looked up and recognized Hughes sitting across from
him. They immediately began discussing their poetry. Cuney recommended Lincoln University
to Hughes, who subsequently enrolled there. The two became good friends. Eventually Hughes,
Cuney, Allyn Hill, and Edward Silvera became known as the Lincoln University poets.

After graduation Cuney studied voice at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and
at the conservatory in Rome. However in those early years of the Harlem Renaissance, when
black writers were respected and nurtured, Cuney became a poet rather than a professional
singer.

Wrote No Images
Cuney wrote No Images in 1924 when he was 18: She does not know/Her beauty,/She thinks
her brown body/Has no glory.//If she could dance/Naked,/Under palm trees/And see her image in
the river/She would know.//But there are no palm trees/On the street/And dish water gives back
no images. The poem shared first and second prizes in the 1926 Opportunity magazine literary
contest. A translation appeared in 1928 in Der Hammer, a Yiddish communist literary journal,
under the title How Beautiful She Is.

By the time that singer Nina Simone began performing and recording the poem (as Images) in
the 1960s, it was already one of the most anthologized poems in black literature. It became an
anthem of the black is beautiful movement during the 1960s. No Images continued to be
recorded and performed by singers and

His poem Beale Street opens with: Did you know/That Beale Street/In Memphis,/Has a grave
yard/At one end,/A river,/At the other?//No wonder/They say the blues/Began on Beale Street.

In Colored Cuney wrote: You want to know what its like/Being colored?//Well,/Its like
going to bat/With two strikes/Already called on you// The only way to know/Is to be born
colored.

















Don't give a shit about my life.
Take off the wings and perm, but the bones.

If you're trying to hunt me, I'm my coach.

The others get out of the garden, the msvzn msvzn

Tied to the neck because the string's on me.

Give me your permission to give me my tongue.

Around the flower of bess khalida thorns in my feet

The blood of the bloody.

In this place, the cage away from the rosary, burnt, dead.
Call me o saba of, the gardener

I'm bleeding all alone, I don't have a secret.

To write to my friends, my story.

I was desperate for his murder.

I've seen the, the shbnm.

My coach made me an enemy.

Kind has been neglecting the first from the first psbnm

"Apparitor bvy"

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