acclaimed english versions of the babylonian epic, "gilgamesh," and of latin texts by horace and virgil. and lines from works of the past will, in turn, show up in and become part of his own verse. in the "bewilderment" collection, for example, a translation of a poem by virgil is followed by a similarly themed poem by ferry himself. this is a man clearly obsessed with connections and links. >> brown: i saw a review where someone referred to you with great admiration as a special kind of thief. so that's all artists, right, use from the past? >> yes. and i do do that. one reason for doing that is what it says in my own poem. it's usefulness for that poem. it also does mean there's a motive to connect what you're saying to the past of writing. you want your own poem to be part of that enterprise. >> brown: there is a poem of yours called "ancestral lines" which goes to this question of connections to the past, right? can you read the beginning for us? >> it's as when following the others' lines, which are the tracks of somebody gone before, leaving me mischievous clues, telling me who th

is your name virgil pipino? yeah. detective munch, baltimore police department. oh, a-a-am i in trouble? let me finish, all right? oh, sorry, sorry boss. don't worry about it. all right, now a couple weeks ago did you have a fare-- it was the ninth to be exact-- a young-looking guy hispanic like in his 20s? yeah, yeah. yeah, i do as a matter of fact. where'd you pick him up? at the train station. he tell you his name? no. did he happen to tell you where he was coming from? yeah, you know i asked him because he had this mets ball cap on and the orioles played them interleague this summer. that's why. where'd you take him to? out to some house in roland park. you leave him there? yes. thank you, sir. hey, hey, hey, wait a minute... you know the weird thing was... i drive down a couple of blocks to grab a nap and a call comes in, and i wake up and i see the same kid running by my cab. great, all right. thanks. that was munch. they got a report of a latin kid sniffing around the janaways' house two weeks ago. cabdriver picked him up at the train. wearing a mets cap s

they preside over the ancient writers-- sappho, virgil, homer, and the almost contemporary, dante.kathleen weil-garris brandt] there is a continuity between the golden age of antiquity and the new golden age that julius ii was attempting to generate in his own papal rome. we know that he saw himself as the ecclesiastical, the churchly successor to the emperors of ancient rome. you can imagine that people who came here and saw the pope here came away with a very strong feeling of the church's unity, power, wisdom, and wealth-- perhaps something of an ideal projection rather than a celebration of fact. it was not only popes who wished to place themselves in the tradition of antiquity. agostino chigi was banker to pope julius and his successor, pope leo. consequently one of europe's richest men, he persuaded raphael to decorate his new villa on the banks of the tiber. raphael created the illusion of two canopies to protect chigi's guests from the heat of the day. the gods dined above while the guests dined below, tossing their golden plates over the riverbank. chigi, by the way, kept

we are watching winter storm virgil cranking up as it leaves the rockies.ing to watch snow in denver seeing the snow. then it will move into the plains. rain changing to snow. the cold air in place. high in denver 24 degrees. snow on the ground to help keep it colder. temperatures will cool down in a hurry. that is what we are looking at here for sunday. snow moving in now into parts of the ohio valley and parts of the northern plains. more of a shower situation. not really heavy snow. we are looking at tomorrow at the temperatures topping out only into the 30s. sunday a cool day. still mild throughout parts of the southeast. keep in mind in the southeast you have to watch out for storms. we are dealing with the threat of severe weather to the south and north. to the north here we will see the winter storm possibly now on monday affecting some of the big cities on the i-95 corridor. that is something we have to keep a close eye on for monday. next week things calming down. we are looking at a few snow showers. milder throughout much of the northern plains.