José Ricardo Mazó

He was a member of the Literary Academy of the College of San José and of the Paraguayan Academia Universitaria.

He is regarded as one of the Promoción del 50, a group of 1950s poets, mainly from the Academia Universitaria and the Faculty of Philosophy in Asunción who wrote socially engaged poetry during Alfredo Stroessner's dictatorship (1954–1989).

His poem, ERA EL MES DE NIZAM..., should perhaps be read in that light.

Briznas: suerte de antología (Scraps: A kind of Anthology), 1982, gathers together 73 poems written between the years 1940 and 1980.

The book is organised into five parts: Solitude, absence, nostalgia, distance, boredom ... as well as a constant search for the self, a recurrent encounter with time, and fixation on an unceasing memory, are the dominant motifs of his poetry.