“Book Descriptions: 'preparatory school for the end of the world' is a poetry chapbook exploring religion, trauma, gender, rebirth, and ego death in an experimental call-and-response format that forms a series of sacred conversations between internal and external. It serves as a written funeral ceremony for author nat raum's past identity as they begin to live authentically as their queer self, casting off parts of themself which were largely a product of trauma experienced from adolescence through early adulthood. Orchestrated with the care of the most elaborate ceremony possible, they let go of that which no longer serves them in an extreme act of catharsis, bringing them closer to closure in their healing process.” DRIVE