We propose here the problematization and discussion of the category of "generation" as a tool of organization and periodization of Peruvian poetry during the second half of the twentieth century, analyzing in particular the key moment that represents the period 60-70 in the function that this chronological marker has as a strategy of positioning in the literary and poetic field and how at the same time does not cease to be a gesture of periodization that unifies and makes invisible the various discursive lines present in the framework of Peruvian literary poetry.