Textile City Memories by Paul Cordeiro

About the book

Textile City Memories maps a New England mill town through decades of change — from cotton mills and speakeasies to gang signs and contaminated water reports. Paul Cordeiro writes from inside the place, not above it. These poems carry working-class life, civic neglect, and private tenderness in the same breath. A librarian stamps books through the onset of carpal tunnel, a bakery saturates an entire square with the smell of Portuguese sweet bread, and a zoo renovates but still cages the bald eagle.

This is a collection that remembers without nostalgia, and observes without looking away.

Edition details

• Catalogue: ASP 003
• Published: 29 April 2026
• Edition: 26 copies
• Copies for sale: 20, numbered by hand
• Format: Small square, 148 × 148 mm
• Extent: 28 pages
• Binding: Saddle-stitched
• Interior: 100 gsm recycled uncoated paper
• Cover: 250 gsm recycled natural stock
• Production: Designed, printed, assembled, numbered, and stamped by Analog Submission Press in York

About the author

Paul Cordeiro has travelled the eastern seaboard of North America, from Disney World to Toronto, from Cape Cod to Niagara Falls. Retired from footwear and home goods sales, he lived for seventeen years in the textile city of this collection. He now sits beside a Yorkshire terrier. On walks, he scratches out haiku and tanka.

The Small Run

Read a conversation with Paul Cordeiro about class, compression, and the place where private memory enters public history in The Small Run 003.