Ms. Understood by Juliette Collet. $22, 100 pages, softcover. 

Collet continues to move forward, though not in a dash to produce material for materials sake, or in a way that suggests honing a formula. Instead, each new release by Collet moves forward creatively, not out of restlessness it seems, but instead curiosity. There are touches in this new work of a Henry Darger quality, tho not in content, more in the way images overflow with the energy of a brightly composed ensemble. It's hard to do justice to Collet's continued output because each new work urges you to say 'another triumph' and then, perhaps, to grow complacent. But this new work, her longest and most sustained yet, proves something very clear: this is an artist whose work you sit down and read because it contains a complexity that matters. Collet phrases that complexity with the flair of an artist who also works hard for that complexity to be a pleasure. Both extremes become bound into a solid force within this brilliant book.