uthor to Her Book is a poem by Anne Bradstreet that can relate to many authors who write either poetry or technical manuals. The poem is about her book Tenth Muse: lately sprung up in America that was published without her approval or awareness (Academy of American Poets). In the poem, she speaks as if the book is her child, a child taken from its safe and exposed to the world before it was ready. She believes as a child’s behavior reflects on its parent, her book also reflects on her. When she looks at it and with the knowledge that the world will look at it too, she observes so many flaws that she wishes she could hide it away. She feels that any changes she makes will do no good and instead hopes that no critic will see her book, and write
