To the Barricades, Zane Grey Fans!

Here's a three-handed slap, delivered by the New Yorker's Adam Kirsch, in a critical look at Charles Bukowski's poetry:

Bukowski is best read as a very skillful genre writer. He bears the same relation to poetry as Zane Grey does to fiction, or Ayn Rand to philosophy -- a highly colored, morally uncomplicated cartoon of the real thing.

Our cover package on the highly colored, morally uncomplicated philosopher-cartoon is here. (Link via L.A. Observed.)