Suspended animation in fiction which is indistinguishable from death. In American fiction, the first story to deal with suspended animation is the tale of Rip Van Winkle, a short story by American author Washington Irving published in 1819 as well as the name of the story's fictional protagonist. In the story, a British subject in the American colonies wanders into the Catskill Mountains in the years before the American Revolutionary War, and finds a group of fairies, whose moonshine he drinks. He then falls asleep for 20 years, and returns to his village in what is now the United States, finding his home town
Ryan Van Winkle member of Highlight Arts, Van Winkle has organized festivals and translation workshops in Syria, Pakistan and Iraq.He currently works as Poet in Residence for Edinburgh City Libraries and lives in Edinburgh. Ryan Van Winkle Ryan Van Winkle is an American poet, live artist, podcaster and critic. He has two collections of poetry and has created performance poetry for live audiences. His work has appeared in several anthologies. His poems have also appeared in "New Writing Scotland", "The Prairie Schooner" and "The American Poetry Review". Van Winkle was the first Reader in Residence at the Scottish Poetry Library. He has also