Barba Jacob achieved, from his peripheral position as a rare poet, a prominent place in Hispano-American Modernismo. Despite the dissonant and retrogressive tone used to categorize him, the search for perfection of form and a strict balance between musicality, rhythm and rhyme defined his work. I am interested in the meaning and transcendence of this search, essential to the artistic creation of his demonic poet hero. From his prologues and poems, I inquire into Barba Jacob´s obsession to publish a carefully refined work, definitive in the creation of his great metaphor: the unfinished journey to that enigmatic place called “Acuarimántima”.