La poesie comme non-savoir

An exploration of the essential similarities between what Georges Bataille conceptualizes as "non-knowledge" and as "modern poetry". Bataille's thought is focused around a fundamental denunciation of the fallacies of modern poetry. His "a-theology" is inherently "anti-poetic": its excesses depend on a transgression of poetry's restricted economy and its "inner experience" is contingent upon negating its language--carrying out its silent "ecstasy". It would be logical then to assume that non-knowledge is poetry negated. Yet, when Bataille defines modern poetry, he describes its privileged transgressions in terms identical to those used for defining the experience of non-knowledge: its experiments are said to be sacred variations of a common "inner experience"; its excesses, language's "ecstasy". It is thus very difficult to understand what, if any, are the difference between poetry and non-knowledge.