MAY THERE BE many more fruitful years, for Kamau Brathwaite has never stopped writing as the years have passed.  May there be joy in a life well lived and realization that the profound ways he has changed poetics will live vibrantly after him. Generous and gentle, Kamau Brathwaite has helped younger poets over the decades, as teacher, mentor and friend. He has shown his students how to imagine more fully and how to find a form to best express that imagining.