[HELP] I’m a almost completely new to poetry and I need some recommendations

William Carlos Williams (d. 1963) is great, if he is mid-century? He writes about love and people and nature and the city, with a language that I find admirable. I have a poetry collection published by penguin which I read every spring, but I think he's texts are public domain. My favourite poem by him is The Widow's Lament in Springtime:

Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire that closes round me this year. Thirtyfive years I lived with my husband. The plumtree is white today with masses of flowers. Masses of flowers load the cherry branches and color some bushes yellow and some red but the grief in my heart is stronger than they for though they were my joy formerly, today I notice them and turn away forgetting. Today my son told me that in the meadows, at the edge of the heavy woods in the distance, he saw trees of white flowers. I feel that I would like to go there and fall into those flowers and sink into the marsh near them.

And if you feel like experiencing Williams on film there's the one with Adam Driver called "Paterson" (where Williams lived).

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