His father, Salvador Jara Bermeo, was a merchant who exported straw hats and his mother, Idrovo Leticia Aguilar, was a professor of Castilian and a poet.
Several poetry books followed, including Transit in The Ash (1947), The Absence Trail (1948), Two Poems (1973), and the remarkable and hugely popular Weeping for Pedro Jara (1978).
Idrovo was a prolific poet, and brought out many books into the nineties, like From the Superficial to Deep (1992), The Faces of Eros (1997) and The Evidence World (1999).
The English translation of the poem was made by Dr. Cecilia Mafla-Bustamante and published in 1998 in the journal Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.
[5] The Biographical Dictionary of Ecuador has called it "one of the greatest and most beautiful national poems ever written.