Painting by Ellen Levine - 11 by 14 inches in red wood frame, with accompanying book of poetry "Song the Only Victory" by Steve Levine. Steve Levine is an educator, poet and theatre performer who lives in Chilmark and Toronto. He has given readings of the poetry contained in this book in Canada, the US, Sweden and Switzerland. These poems are an attempt to use the power of the arts to respond to the horrors of war. Ellen Levine is an educator and artist, living in Chilmark and Toronto, who has exhibited her work in Canada, the US and in Switzerland. The painting in the auction is part of a series of works that make use of current newspaper photographs from war zones, in order to call attention to the photographs and to evoke the stories that the viewer might imagine coming from them.