Gregg Eisenberg is a stand-up philosopher, geographer, and musician living in Boulder, Colorado. He grew up writing poems in a Jewish household in Chicagoland where he learned how to feel a dissonant mixture of awkwardness and confidence about himself from some of the most loving people you could ever meet. When his childhood peers went off to Dartmouth, he went on an experimental writing journey across the deserts of Greece, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, and Israel. At the time he told his mother: “I’m a poet – anything else is extra.”

After months of circulating through dangerous countries and scribbling notes in remote border towns, he received an auspicious fortune cookie in a small Chinese restaurant in the Arab quarter of Jerusalem with a scarcely-known quote from the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao-Tzu. This sparked his fascination with eastern thought and led him to study Asian language and literature at the University of California. There the coastal ecosystems and exposure to Taoist thought further riveted his imagination and forced him to take his exploration of aesthetics (and restless mind-syndrome) further. Songwriting became his passion, in a genre he calls Heavy Meadow. After working in China and then completing a Master’s in Geography at Boston University, Gregg moved to Colorado to continue writing music and work to protect the west’s fragile environments.

Gregg formed Curved-Space Comedy in 2016 and under that name performs his multi-media, science-comedy show Even the Earth is Bipolar in planetariums, publishes his books, and provides private speaking events. In 2018, he released two titles: Letting Go Is All We Have to Hold Onto: Humor for Humans, and Love Without Madness (Amor Sin Locura) – bilingual poetry which he performs with live musical accompaniment. In a somewhat radical return to his roots, he is currently writing Follow Your Bris to perform in smoky synagogue and church lounges around America.

“The desire to spread levity in the world weighs heavily upon me.” – Gregg Eisenberg

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For a very fun video of the author reading from his book, watch his video on Youtube.