Scope and Contents

Edited by Jake Berry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents According to St. Thomasino: "The Go poems were originally composed on a standard manual Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter. They were and still are considered to be "typewriter poems" by virtue of the fact that they were conceived and composed according to the "standard" all-letters-take-the-same-space-as-the-widest-letter arrangement that is the case with most popular manual typewriters. Until the availability of the monospaced Microsoft TrueType font Courier New, reproduction for publication had to be accomplished by paste up (and this is still the case, as most editors still do not have a monospaced font available for layout, notwithstanding the fact that typewriter poems are usually notoriously difficult, and time-consuming, for an editor to reset). Most importantly, I could not compose or revise a Go poem on my PC. Until a monospaced font became available, the typewriter poem was bound to the typewriter. (And a poem such as "Jacques' Dilemma" could not, until then, be composed on...