How does Ivan Doig use imagery in Dancing at the Rascal Fair?

Examples of Imagery:

"My first night in steerage I learned that I was not born to sleep on water. The berth was both too short and too narrow for me, so that I had to kink myself radically, curl up and wedge in at the same time." Scotland and Helena, p. 9

"The newspaper shook in my hands as I opened it to the third page, as I dropped my eyes to the end of the remainder of the list and forced them, the tears already welling, back up to the Rs. Reese, Anna, wife of Isaac, mother of Lisbeth and Peter. Age 44." Two Medicine, p. 344