Goodbye, America!
Subtitle: Poems, Essays, INNERviews, and Photographs
Publisher: Ramparts, Inc.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Orleans, LA
Format: Literary
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780965437905
Description: There are at least five thematic structures: Nature, Science, Love, Politics, and The Flying Dutchman Legend.  It is not a collage as is The Icecream Lady, but the subject matter should appeal to all Americans.  According to Roland John, the British poet and critic, "Lenny Emmanuel's work is accessible, however never obvious. His work is modern in the best sense, and like all poetry there is an underlying intelligence.  Beneath the polished veneer of many of the poems are skillful allusions to the tradition; but there is almost always something deeply American in the celebration and scolding of his country and culture."
And according to the artist Ting Blessington, "Lenny Emmanuel has stepped out of the box, colored beyond the lines of his peers.  He is now in the company of persecuted creative innovators."