Given that monospaced fonts are suboptimal for article text, if you had to use one, which is the most legible in that context? [on hold]

As the question states, it's pretty well established (e.g. by this UX question) that monospace is not the correct choice in most cases when you want to show blocks of text.

However, I have a rather unique task. I'm setting the work of a prose/poet who wrote all his pieces on monospaced typewriter in the 1960s/70s, and letters lining up is absolutely essential to his effect.

It's not sparse lines, like, e.g. e.e. cummings (who also wrote typewriter poetry). These are real blocks of text, but sometimes there will be whitespace with a shape, or red-colored letters which show a message vertically, that sort of thing.

So, given this constraint, what do you suggest? My first thought was to use a typewriter font, but while that's obviously the writer's intent on the page, I'm not sure it's the right choice for a computer screen. A typewriter font in the 1970s would not look retro, it would look ordinary. So I think it's appropriate to use something that looks ordinary. And, of course, I have to imbed it as an .otf.