About the book: 2021 / Expelled by the authorities from the Soviet Union in 1972 and awarded the Nobel Prize 15 years later, Joseph Brodsky continued in many ways the great tradition of the exiled poet. However, the years spent away from his homeland did not make him a recluse. Although he never returned to his beloved Leningrad, he was free to travel and write about the world. The author of the monograph focuses on the analysis of Brodsky’s poems and essays about Mexico, Brazil, Turkey and Venice. In an effort to challenge the prevailing ideas about Brodsky as a leading emigrant poet and heir of European modernism, S. Turoma immerses the researched materials in the unusual context of modern travelogue. The author sees in Brodsky's travel writings his reaction not only to his exile, but also to the postmodern and postcolonial landscape that initially shaped these texts. S. Turoma charts a previously unexplored trajectory of the poet’s evolution from a lonely dissident to a celebrated writer and offers a new look at the geopolitical, philosophical and linguistic background of his poetic imagination. Sanna Turoma is a research fellow at the Alexander Institute of the University of Helsinki (Finland).).