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- Poet. He was
born in 1883. Although he never wrote a tango he has a special place in
tango history because he was the first poet entirely devoted to writing
about everyday life in the neighborhoods of Buenos Aires. As writer Jorge
Luis Borges expressed in the biography he wrote about Carriego, the poet
was the first spectator poor neighborhoods had. He published “Misas
herejes” (“Heretic masses”) in 1908, and “La canción del
barrio” (“The neighborhood song”), which appeared in Barcelona one
year after his death. His works influenced a lot of tango poets,
especially Homero Manzi, as it is possible to see in tangos as “Viejo
ciego” (“Old blind man”) and “El último organito” (“The last
little pipe organ”) which is a homage to Manzi´s literary predecessor.
He died in 1912.
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