<p>One Clean Feather depicts survival from illness and sexual violence and also paints a portrait of the artist striving to find living literary mothers and sisters. In poems &ldquo;sharp as silver clean and stunning&rdquo; and locations ranging from the Midwest to Paris Knowlton invites her readers on a flight from darkness into the light of autonomy poetry and hope&mdash; &ldquo;the thing with feathers.&rdquo;</p>