For many, Altazor or the parachute trip (1931), considered the poem of failure, is the masterpiece of Vicente Huidobro, who is among the great experimental poets of the 1920s. It was a key to that period, due to its energy and firmness with which he proclaimed himself as the first avant-garde poet and for having founded Creationism, a movement based on a "general aesthetic theory"; according to this literary movement, the poet had to create a poem as nature creates a tree.

His response to all the movements of the early 20th century was Creationism, the revolutionary current that conceived of the poet as a thaumaturgical god, destined to create a new type of poetry that competed with nature instead of reflecting it. This concept constituted the axis of his poetic work, strewn with surprising images, dramatic juxtapositions and letters with random sequences of words.

Altazor is an autobiographical poem, it is a poem not about failure, but about failure, they are not comments about failure, but it presents it in all its immensity. It is the poem for the new world of technology that finds, through Altazor's gaze, the correspondence of each object that integrates nature with each human manufacture. In the same way, it is the continuation of a custom: each landscape corresponds to a feeling and a desire. One of its values ​​resides in the fact of having illustrated the excess and impossibility of aspiration.

One of his values ​​(and of his risks, of course) lies in the fact that he has illustrated with his writing the excess and the impossibility of an aspiration.

Huidobro's poetic imprint is an influence on the new generations, since he was able to discover new paths from Altazor.