This essay argues that the search for an “absolute” guides Alejandra Pizarnik’s aesthetics. It is a voice that does not hesitate to cross the borders of self in order to assume everything that reason hides and to confront everything that language is unable to say and do. The essay argues, however, that this defeat brings with it the emergence of a new absolute that is none other than the poem itself. The loss of the absolute ends up being constitutive of a new “literary absolute”.