@acsawdey @lkundrak e.e. cummings and the unexpectedly weird and industrial physical vessel he employed were memorably described in this piece from 1983 https://www.csmonitor.com/1983/0720/072011.html

Yet there has come to be something human about typewriters. At least I am rather taken with the notion that Cummings, whose strange patterns of verse fairly fizz on the page, sat down to a foursquare upright like the one I was given by an old Marine Corps buddy from Maine. And that Plath called forth her dark muse on an almost playful little Hermes like the one I carried in my luggage for years.