His work was instrumental in poetry porteñista back and tango lyrics.

His family moved to Buenos Aires, He lived at Honduras No. 84 (today 3784), Palermo neighborhood. From a young age he frequented the literary circles porteñas, in which gravitated Ruben Dario and Almafuerte.

He wrote in various publications of the time, In protest, And Ink, Faces and masks, and others. They also unveiled his poems and short stories. He published his first book of poems, masses heretics, in 1908 and its remaining poetic work was published after his death under the titleSong neighborhood.

Carriego who discovered the lyrical possibilities of Arrabal and archetypes that constitute his personal mythology and porteña, which highlights handsome, the coffees, the neighborhood and the neighbors, their sorrows and joys, painting us an era, a geography, a human feeling. Work that has been decisive for poetry porteñista back and tango lyrics.

He died of peritonitis appendicular, as it stated in certificate signed by Dr. Pedro Galli. Had 29 years. It was the "poet of the suburb ', the "poet of the humble", the "poet of Palermo".

The 7 May 1975 the Association of Friends of the House of Evaristo was founded Carriego, who chaired the palermitano painter José María Mieravilla, who is due, largely, the preservation of this house. He was honorary president of that entity, to which I had the honor of belonging, the writer Jorge Luis Borges.

Source: Luis Alposta – http://www.todotango.com/