Poet Al Young visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "Something About the Blues." This event took place on December 4, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. Like Harlem renaissance poet Langston Hughes, who first popularized the blues as a poetic form, Al Young has written about the blues, played the blues and drawn inspiration from the blues. Something About the Blues uses the blues as a theme throughout 100 new and previously-published poems. Selections evoke the cold, hard city, love gone wrong and blues music itself, with tributes to Ma Rainey, Lena Horne and other notable performers.