"Conversando" — A 110-year-old Buenos Aires poem, set to music for today In 1912, a young poet named Evaristo Carriego died in Buenos Aires at 29. He left behind a handful of poems about the city's working-class outskirts — its quiet corners, its stubborn men, its wine-stained dignity. Borges would later call him the inventor of the suburbs as a literary subject. More than a century later, those verses are still finding new life. Pablo Mamiaro — a guitarist born and raised in Buenos Aires — takes one of Carriego's poems and brings it into the present. The subject is a man who has made peace with the world on his own terms: indifference, wine, books left deliberately unread. Carriego wrote him with affection and zero judgment. Mamiaro sings him the same way. The bridge between them is no accident. Mamiaro has collaborated with Mercedes Sosa — the towering Argentine folk voice known across Latin America as La Negra — and that lineage runs through every note. This is not nostalgia dressed up as music. It's a conversation across time, from the Buenos Aires of 1912 to the Buenos Aires of right now. A song that smells like wine and old streets. And somehow, completely current.more