Marjorie Agosin Feminist Press (Memoir) Poets seem to have a knack with memoir. There's already something very baring about much contemporary poetry that is similar to what many memorably brave and direct memoirs possess. There's also something even more immediate about translation. Works translated into English often have a stunning directness, which can owe itself to the difficulty of effectively bringing the idioms and cadences of another language into our own. These tendencies, like any elements of writing, can…